Police: Woman killed by hit-and-run driver on Wichita street

November 10, 2018

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police are searching for a hit-and-run driver after two patrol officers found a woman’s body on a city street.

Police say the officers were on routine patrol Friday evening on Harry Street in the south part of the city when they crossed the I-135 bridge and spotted the woman’s body lying in the westbound lanes. Officials say she had been hit by a vehicle.

First responders pronounced that woman dead at the scene. Her name had not been released by midday Saturday.

Police are asking anyone with any information on the hit-and-run to call Crime Stoppers.